英语寓言故事大全

寓言故事的作用在于,它不仅仅让学生从中学习了知识,而且还提升了思维判断能力,除此之外,还有助于培养学生的审美能力与良好的道德情操,下面这些是小编为大家推荐的几篇英语寓言故事大全。

英语寓言故事大全1：The parrot and the cat

A man once bought a parrot and gave it the run of his house. It reveled in its liberty, and presently flew up on to the mantelpiece and screamed away to its heart's content.

The noise disturbed the cat, who was asleep on the hearthrug. Looking up at the intruder, she said,

"Who may you be, and where have you come from?" The parrot replied, "Your master has just ought me and brought me home with him."

"You impudent bird," said the cat, "how dare you, a newcomer, make a noise like that? Why, I was born here, and have lived here all my life, and yet, if I venture to mew, they throw things at me and chase me all over the place."

"Look here, mistress," said the Parrot, "you just hold your tongue. My voice they delight in; but yours-yours is a perfect nuisance."

英语寓言故事大全2:The stag and lion

A stag was chased by the hounds, and took refuge in a cave, where he hoped to be safe from his pursuers.

Unfortunately the cave contained a lion, to whom he fell an easy prey. "Unhappy that I am," he cried, "I am saved from the power of the dogs only to fall into the clutches of a lion."

Out of the frying-pan into the fire.

英语寓言故事大全3:The impostor

A certain man fell ill, and, being in a very bad way, he made a vow that he would sacrifice a hundred oxen to the gods if they would grant him a return to health. Wishing to see how he would keep his vow, they caused him to recover in a shout time.

Now he hadn't an ox in the world, so he made a hundred little oxen out of tallow and offered them up on an altar, at the same time saying, "Ye gods, I call you to witness that I have discharged my vow."

The godsdetermined to be even with him, so they sent him a dream,

in which he was bidden to go to the seashore and fetch a hundred crowns which he was to find there.

Hastening in great excitement to the shore, he fell in with a band of robbers, who seized him and carried him off to sell as a slave: and when they sold him a hundred crowns was the sum he fetched.

Do not promise more than you can perform.